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The Legacy of Conquest

The Unbroken Past of the American West

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The Legacy of Conquest

By: Patricia Nelson Limerick PhD
Narrated by: Pam Ward
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The "settling" of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a history grounded primarily in economic reality - in hardheaded questions of profit, loss, competition, and consolidation.

Here, she interprets the stories and the characters in a new way: The trappers, traders, Indians, farmers, oilmen, cowboys, and sheriffs of the Old West "meant business" in more ways than one, and their descendants mean business today.

©1987 Patricia Nelson Limerick (P)2019 Tantor
Americas Military State & Local United States Old West Wild West Business Capitalism Latin American Social justice Socialism Taxation
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